cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12063839

Someone keeps trying to access my MS account

Like the title says, I’ve got yesterday an email with a code to access my Microsoft account and that made me suspicious because I wasn’t trying to login to my account. When I looked at the login attempts I saw that someone else was trying to access my account, I changed my password, activated TFA. Thinking of going through and buying a physical key like yubico to further secure my account. Any tips are appreciated.

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I checked out my old Hotmail account and there’s somebody in china trying to access it non stop.

It’s protected with a strong password and 2fa. But it still makes me uneasy. I just wish I could geo block the attempts or something.

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Contact Microsoft. If your lucky they can fingerprint the person doing this and block them (if your lucky)

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Ita the same for me. I only have my old hotmail as its tied to my xbox account. Someone from china is attempting to get access every day.

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Geo block would be great on unsuccessful logging in.

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you mean like fail2ban? a standard POSIX package since the 90s? that kinda paradigm that MS has no concept of?

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What’s more annoying is that it’s been happening since January 21st and no notice from MS.

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